Ian Nathan

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For 266 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ian Nathan's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 The Big Lebowski
Lowest review score: 20 Billy Madison
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 124 out of 266
  2. Mixed: 138 out of 266
  3. Negative: 4 out of 266
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    A Passage to India
    Perhaps, it was the choice of material, a much more internalised story despite its glossy Raj setting, or the absence of Robert Bolt as screenwriter (it was he who put the fire in Lean’s belly), but the film, for all Lean’s innate elegance, is strangely remote and unmoving.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Risky Business
    It’s "Ferris Bueller" with an existential crisis. Very funny and very weird.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
    It’s juvenilia, straight-up goofballing, but there is a tittering innocence at work here.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Q & A
    More than an average thriller, but far from Lumet's finest hour.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Battlestar Galactica
    Although evidently a rip-off — there were hints of Lucas even taking the matter to the courts — this spacebound wagon train, whose limits are readily apparent, is great fun.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Out of Africa
    Just as the film captures a world (Imperialism, hunting, colonialism) that has faded away, so this film feels like one of the last of it's kind.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Frantic
    Frantic is Polanski's most satisfying film since Chinatown, and one of the best traditional thrillers to come down the pike in quite some time.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Freaked
    A classic, of sorts.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Damien: Omen II
    A rerun of the first one but satan junior is now a teenager.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Ian Nathan
    Under Siege
    This no-brainer is fine if all you're after a bit of escapism, but don't look for anything deeper than that.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    The Final Conflict
    Unfortunately, half the time this feels more like an Omen parody than a chance to give it a great send off.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
    It picks up in the last hour, though this is a very minor compensation in an otherwise long and listless film.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Rocky IV
    The jingoism is blindingly awful, but by the time of the showdown, the film has descended into an unaware parody of itself.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Moonraker
    Bond meets Star Wars in one of the series' sillier outings.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Any Which Way You Can
    About the dumbest movie Clint Eastwood ever put his name to.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Cleopatra
    Running at just over four hours, it is as spectacular, lush and extravagant as the studio would have liked its audience to believe. But it also has moments of mind-numbing boredom as the plot,– slowed by extraneous dialogue, drags from Egypt to Rome.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Emperor
    Good intentions, vivid setting and TLJ on top form do not make up for a lack of anything truly compelling.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    The Bourne Legacy
    As earnestly as they have tried to continue the formerly excellent spy series, everything Gilroy and crew concoct only serves to mock the excellence and passion with which Greengrass delivered his films.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    The Jewel of the Nile
    Only distinguishable from the original movie by its obvious cheapness.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    The Mighty Ducks
    As a light family sports feel-good this works but don't look for anything more.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Quest for Fire
    This is supposed to be serious hard-hitting but with most prehistoric depictions, only manages either school reconstruction or parody.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Year of the Dragon
    Everything from the style to the casting feels grubby and worn.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Battle for the Planet of the Apes
    Largely devoid of any charm or intelligence that made other Apes films entertaining, this one should be buried in the Forbidden Zone.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    The Money Pit
    This has some very, very funny bits...interspersed with a very slight film.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Darkman
    Certainly not Raimi at his best, but some knowing genre nods and an array of great effects make up much of the deficit.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
    The CG does its part of the bargain, but even more than the brighter, breezier original this is a pale imitation of Potter.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Closed Circuit
    With Eastern Promises and Dirty Pretty Things, screenwriter Steven Knight has proved his ear for London's darker rhythms. Here, though, there's little to raise the pulse.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Conan the Destroyer
    Arnie still swings that sword with aplomb, but with a story this ludicrous, he's on slippery ground.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Cutthroat Island
    It's mindless entertainment, but its critical and commercial failure doomed the pirate genre to a watery grave.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Ian Nathan
    Krull
    One of the dreariest outer space swashbucklers of all time.
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